People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

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Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.